Will Bunch
As national opinion columnist, I focus on politics (having covered every presidential election since 1984!), government, media, and the trends from social justice to AI that shape modern America.
New Yorker by birth but Philadelphian by choice (including, for better or worse, the Union, Phillies, and all the other teams), I was drawn toward journalism by watching the tumult of the 1960s and Watergate as a little kid, and I've never regretted it.
This journey has taken me through the Hackley School, Brown University, the AP, the Washington (Pa.) Observer-Reporter, the Birmingham (Ala.) News, Newsday on Long Island and in New York City, and finally the Philadelphia Daily News, where I was both senior reporter and a pioneering blogger (Attytood) before we merged with The Inquirer in 2017 and I became a full-time columnist. Along the way, I've won numerous journalism awards, including sharing the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting with my New York Newsday colleagues.
I've also written a number of books, including 2022's “After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics, and How to Fix It.”
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